Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:32:38 -0400

In message <199906192244.SAA01925@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>, Horst von Brand writes
:
+-----
| And "Need Zip drive... OK, look how it should be called today...(root
| around in /proc)... OK, it's called /dev/foo today, go access /dev/foo so
| the kernel goes looking for it... nope, not found" sounds harder on the
+--->8

Funny, that's what I (with a SCSI Zip drive) sometimes have to do *without*
devfs. In fact, devfs makes it show up with the same name *more*
consistently, not less.

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